2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 18,901 people earned their degree in clinical/medical laboratory science, making the major the 93rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, clinical/medical laboratory science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,036 and had an average of $19,885 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5,662 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,178 and $18,271 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 clinical/medical laboratory science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical/medical laboratory science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their clinical/medical laboratory science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science in the Southeast Region

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 12 doctorate’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full Mississippi State Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science Report

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Clinical Laboratory Science Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 37 doctorate’s clinical laboratory science degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science at University of Kentucky

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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